PROVENANCE
Max Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662-
1726); Captain Thomas Leyland, London,
circa 1854; William Cornwallis West, Ruthin
Castle, Denbighshire; by descent around
1917 to his daughter, Mary-Theresa Olivia,
Princess of Pless; David Style, Esq. (sold,
Christie's, Wateringbury Place, Maidstone,
Kent, June 1,1978, lot 545); private collec
tion, London (sold, Sotheby's, Monaco,
June 21,1987, lot 1097).EXHIBITIONS
London, Gore House, Kensington, French
Decorative Arts, 1854, lent by Captain Ley-
land; London, The South Kensington
Museum, Special Exhibition of Works of
Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and More
Recent Periods, June 1862, no. 812, lent by
Captain Leyland.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
T. A. Strange, French Interiors: Furniture,
Decoration, Woodwork and Allied Arts
(London, circa 1920), p. 1467; Sotheby's
Art at Auction ιρ86~ιρ8γ (London, 1987),
p. 262, illus.; "Acquisitions/1987," GettyMusJ
16 (1988), no. 66, pp. 176-177, illus.;
Jean-Nérée Ronfort and Jean-Dominique
Augarde, "Le Maitre du Bureau de l'Elec-
teur," LEstampille-LObjet dart 243 (January
1991), pp. 4*~74> illus. p. 59.Top
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